#i have a crush on ted lasso

[vohanna]

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture

#who wore it best #and with it i mean their younger co-stars #whom i may or may not have a crush on #genuinely; I’ve thought ‘its giving paul mescal’ about billy harris’ instagram pictures before #james lance #billy harris #andrew scott #paul mescal #ted lasso #all of us strangers #do not for one second think that I didn’t immediately notice the cardigan when I saw that picture of Andrew scott and paul mescal

[punkcornzero]

Ok so apparently in this fandom you need a tin hat to ship Roy x Jamie x Keeley and a clown nose to ship Ted x Trent

That’s good, I always bring that items with me

#puts on tin hat #puts on clown nose #looks at the mirror #smiles #idk what will happen but i have my armour #idk if Tedtrent is endgame but my babygirl Trent is crushing hard #ted lasso #trent crimm #keeley jones #roy kent #jamie tartt #tedependent #ted x trent #ted lasso spoilers #roy x keeley #roy x jamie #jamie x keeley #so many ships idk oh god #roy x keeley x jamie

[chaotic-gay-is-my-alignment]

I just hope when Zava breaks Dani's big, kind, beautiful, golden retriever heart next episode, he immediately gets read to shreds by Jan Maas and ends up crying in the shower or sth

#poor dani #this is not going to go well for him :( #but honestly i hope everyone jumps in to defend him #he deserves better than to have a crush on this guy :( #ted lasso #dani rojas #zava #jan maas

[wormhabitat]

thinking about how everyone else in the press room calls for ted to call on them but trent usually just quietly raises his hand. he knows he doesn’t have to try hard to get ted’s attention

#idk how true this is lmaoo it’s something i noticed a couple of times and decided to generalize about xoxo #but those few times were enough to infect my brain #trent may canonically have a crush on ted but i’m convinced that it isn’t one sided idc #trent crimm #ted lasso #tedtrent

[time-is-restored]

btw this might be me swinging a bat at a hornets nest but like. absolutely none of my disappointment from the tl finale comes from ship baiting or any relationships that didn’t happen (though to be clear, i think the tedbecca fake outs were meanspirited and served no narrative purpose - in noted contrast to the season's earlier jamiekeeley fakeouts, for example, which were explicitly there to demonstrate jamie's growth + maturity)

tedpendant is a really fun concept for me, and i LOVE the characterisation + thematic potential there!

but as someone who personally resonated with a lot of ted’s struggles, the idea that ted could leave richmond so… seamlessly, for lack of a better word, really doesn’t sit right with me. the thesis of the shows entire first season - assuming it can be said to have only one - was about how everyone needs the love and support of a community, whether that comes in the flavour of someone who hypes u tf up or someone who will relentlessly call u on ur shit (or, as happened quite frequently, both!).

rebecca, roy, jamie are the clearest examples as the characters with the most screentime: they were all deeply isolated and disconnected from the people around them, and that was making them miserable. the connections they made with the team, the vulnerability they finally allowed themselves to express (the ghost banishing ceremony comes to mind!), and them going on to want *more* out of their life are what made their arcs about *progression* rather than *regression*. without that clear theme of compassion + community inspiring positive growth in everyone who encounters it, there is, frankly, no season one.

my personal favourite scene from season one comes right after michelle walks away from ted, when they’ve agreed to get divorced. ted sits down on the bench looking gutted, and a little shell shocked - and beard sits down with him. hands him the drink, and they sit there together. silent, but together. to me, that scene is an implicit promise from the episode, to the audience: ‘it’ll be okay. it’s going to be hard, but ted isn’t alone, and his friends won’t leave him behind.’

it also makes it clear to the audience that ted isn’t the saintly-giver-of-grace who needs nothing in return, as one might assume on first brush, but rather that he’s Also struggling with his own shit (as is everyone, always, in real life!) and he has something he needs from the people around him too.

and looking at the text of s3, and the conclusion to his arc in the finale, i just don’t believe that he got it. he wasn’t just sad that he was leaving (which would be understandable!), he was completely closed off. unresponsive to the people around him reaching out, borderline confused as to why they were trying so hard!

(side note, while i completely respect the read of ted and trents last interaction being rather rude + ooc on ted’s part, i personally read a different motive into it. for me, it was more like… he didn’t understand where trents enthusiasm was coming from? like, he read that as trent being too invested in what other people think of him, and responded in a way that he hoped would emphasise that ted doesn’t *need* to laugh at everything trent wrote, bc trent Already Knows that he’s done something really cool and kickass, and he shouldn’t value anyone else’s reactions above that. basically, based on his demeanour in the episode, i genuinely don’t think it would’ve even occurred to him that trent was more invested in HIS reaction than he would’ve been with anyone else.)

again, looking purely at the text, the show had already established that ted has really strong depressive + avoidant tendencies, as well as panic attacks (largely triggered by his fear of not being ‘good enough’ in various roles, ie: a father). we saw one area he was able to calm HIMSELF abt these fears (worry for henry, which is a Hell of a choice considering the ending…), but in literally every other heightened moment, he had to rely on his support system to help him make the choices that he WANTED to make, rather than ones inspired by avoidance and fear (ie: confronting michelle abt jake, talking to his mum abt why she was visiting + his dads death).

and to be clear, this is a GOOD THING! we’re not supposed to go through life alone, no matter how bad OR well we’re doing. rebecca and keeleys friendship isn’t worth less for all the scenes where they’re both in good places. if anything, the opposite is true - it’s lovely that they both have someone who want to celebrate the achievements in their life!

and fuck it, we’re sure as hell not supposed to go through life with exactly one (1) person whom we expect to fulfill ALL of our emotional needs at all times either! like, im sure i don’t need to labour my point here, but tying everything to one (1) person in ur life doesn’t make u any less isolated than if u were going it completely alone, whether it’s a family member, a friend, or a partner. i won’t pretend to know the first thing abt what it’s like to be a parent, but i don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that no parent would be at their best if they had absolutely no support/camaraderie/general love provided to them from Anyone other than their child.

so when ted is SPECIFICALLY shown to be in a bad place, over and over again (did he come to terms w his fear to be close to henry overnight???????), and then removed from his community? of COURSE the audience is left feeling unsettled, and like the rug has been pulled out from under them. there was no time in this finale dedicated to how ted would still be in contact with anyone from richmond. no promises of visits, or phone calls - fuck, nothing about emails!! according to the text, we might as well assume this is a clean break (and the maybe-dream-sequence does Fuck All to assure us otherwise. if ted doesn’t go to beards wedding, what WOULD he go to????). and since the show has ALSO completely failed to give us even an IMPLICATION of who/what ted’s support system would be in kansas, there’s… a reasonable argument to be made that this is It for ted. that, after two seasons doing NOTHING but attesting otherwise, the audience is supposed to suddenly believe that ted can (and SHOULD!) pull himself up by his bootstraps, and cope entirely on his own.

that, to me, is a betrayal of the show’s premise. we were promised a show about how, no matter how dark things may get, none of the characters would be left to struggle alone. and then they ended the show with ted alone.

i don’t know. i guess if i had to give this post a tldr; if anyone has any gen fic/meta/Literally Anything in the pipeline, i would absolutely love to be tagged/directed towards it. i’ll be endeavouring to write something myself, as well, but it might take a while before i can return to my WIP, lol.

#this is the most measured version of this post i was capable of fghjskdjhgfdgjhsfd #the least measured one is just the aromantic flag with the ‘we are going to beat u to death’ meme overlaid #look ik this is hardly impartial wrt very small + insular communities like nuclear families #but its fucking impossible to go into media analysis and not bring Anything from ur real life in there w u #so im trying to forgive myself for being a little hashtag Vulnerable + Opinionated on main #in the spirit of what this show could’ve been lol #if not here then where etc etc #Ted lasso spoilers #Ted lasso meta #Ted lasso critical #also just to be clear here im being dead serious abt that last point #im spiritually doing the jamie run to demonstrate to u all how badly i want gen shit #please. p l e a s e . #okay wait last ramble here but. this is also why the lack of information we got on trent was so crushing to me #like ur telling me this man went through the incredibly painful + harrowing process of breaking out of his (comfortable! safe) shell + #cynical journalist persona. came out to someone VERY important in his life. and has done nothing but face the music wrt acknowleding #his past mistakes + endeavouring to be better and kinder. and we never get to know if he has ANY support through all that? at all? #is he dating? what's his family situation like? does he have full custody? any friends from work? any friends period????? #like i can should must and will die on the beard + roy + higgins + colins are trents best friends hill but #its like the premise of the show stopped mattering just in time for him to be left in a legitimately depressing limbo #like 'yes everyone needs love + support bc life is rlly hard. but we're tired of making a show abt that so This Is All Ur Getting #+ screw anyone's personal life that u didn't already see in s1. You Know Enough.' #anyway i love u all this is a very silly show and im gonna go play t.o.t.k for a few hours o/ <3

[lilyflowerhere]

In honor of Ted lesso's latest episode

#ted lasso #ted lasso s3 #mary poppins #maria von trapp #the sound of music #queen clarisse renaldi #the princess diaries #eliza doolittle #my fair lady #queen lillian #shrek 2 #julie andrews #i also have a small crush on her

[hopelessfandomfreak]

lesbians exist in ted lasso!! hooray!

I still think roy/keeley will be endgame but I also think jack is exactly what keeley needs right now. she needs someone she can pour her heart and soul to, which she’s already started to do with jack, and who can validate her. eventually I think jack will be the one to tell keeley the obvious fact that she still loves roy, or jack will be a big part of keeley accepting that for herself. either way, jack is going to be important to keeley’s arc this season.

and I mean if I were in keeley’s place I would have done the same thing, can’t say I blame her

#jack is fucking hot #watching keeley have a crush on a woman is so cute #like I saw that coming from a mile away #when barbara is in the doorway and jack walks up and keeley asks if she wants to go richmond’s match #then has to backtrack and be like oh I meant either of you #even though the offer wasn’t made until jack appeared #like I know I’ve done very similar things #keeley jones #jack x keeley #keeley x jack #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso #echo rambles #I know they’re both technically in the bi/pan umbrella #but I’m using lesbian as in the sense of general wlw relationships here

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

okay i know everyone always assumes that trent would be the one who like is experienced and knows what he's doing and is comfortable in his sexuality and out, while ted... well, i've definitely seen some interpretations where he's plenty comfortable, just not really out, but i think a lot of fan content tends towards it either being something he's repressed or he's literally only just discovered, etc. which is all valid by the way, i'm not knocking that at all, and i totally get why that vibe is what people end up going with. but like. have you considered the opposite. ted is like, pretty comfortable in his sexuality, people just make assumptions because he was married to a woman + his whole vibe of affable midwestern dad and all. trent, though, having assumed he was straight up until now, is having a Full Crisis over apparently his first crush being That Goddamn American Coach With The Ridiculous (And Unfortunately Hot??? Somehow?? Is This What Trent Is Into Now???) Mustache.

#alternatively for extra relatable points from me #trent was like ah okay so im aroace? after my long emotional journey in my teens-twenties ive discovered im aroace. #trent as ted gently pries open every emotional layer and wall he has: oh... i. i think. is this a CRUSH????? am i DEMI????? AM I DEMI NOW?? #trent as he implodes his life and somehow ends up getting Even Closer to ted because of it: how is the mustache hot. it shouldn't be hot #[reviews that thought] wait hold up #trent in the shower forehead pressed against the wall: demi BOTH WAYS??????? DEMI *BOTH WAYS???* #ANYWAY i just think giving my dilf blorbos a midlife crisis over their sexuality/romantic orientation at literally The Worst Time Possible #for The Most Inconvenient Person To Have A Crush On #is very funny #trent crimm #ted lasso #tedpendent #tedtrent #anyway i dont normally post for bigger fandoms like this so this is newer for me so if i get scared and delete sorry in advance 😩

[markvi-flamecane]

I don't normally babble about fandom things but -

I can see where the elder mentor Trent angle is coming from. And I may be very biased as an adult queer that had a very daunting coming out publicly process as an adult, but what if Trent isn't the decades in the know queer we think? What if he's just as new to figuring out himself for himself around others? It makes me wonder if Trent being around something (or someone... Ted. We all know I mean Ted.) new helped him break old cycles and start to want to be comfortable as himself. As someone not always defensive out of protective fear.

#ted lasso spoilers #trent crimm #yes this is coded in part for #tedpendent #ted x trent #I just like the idea of getting to see an adult queer story of having to figure it all out later than some others do #And I want Colin to figure out Trent has a big ass crush for Ted and be his himbo footballer wingman for it

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

i still think the sapphic vibes are alive with keeley and mary from ghosts barbara

#me watching this episode: oh my god i can't believe keeley's going to hook up with barbara and roy is going to hook up with jamie AND trent #(... it's possible i just get romantic energy from two people interacting) #dollsome's deep thoughts #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #barbara's going to have a tragic crush on keeley after keeley complimented her snow globe collection #let the record state that i'm marking it down right now #also this is beside the point but i need a ted lasso/bbc ghosts crossover like breathing

[glassfullofsass]

#In James Lance I trust #Ted Lasso spoilers #What I love so much about this is there's no urgency #JL says 'yeah Trent obviously sees Ted as attractive. Trent obviously feels compelled by Ted.' #But there's no spiralling. Trent is discovering himself outside of Ted despite the fact that Ted helped him to look. #And that's so good! That's exactly what happens in the show and frankly that's the healthiest fucking way #Any of the characters grew /ended up tbh #You can have a crush on someone and not desire a relationship from that.

[moreaugriffins]

i'm sorry to anyone i regularly talk to

#meme #my partner brings up 'the dark crystal' one time and now i have to rewatch the show #(and james lance confirms Trent's crush on Ted just as i was starting to move on from Ted Lasso-) #(and brig is always there - again due to my partner getting me some lethbridge-stewart books that im reading)

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

so we knew why Dani saw Sharon and i guess we know why Colin saw Sharon. i wonder why Zoreaux did. was it because being a goalie is a lonely job?

#ted lasso #thierry zoreaux #i have a soft spot for goalies #used to have a bit of a crush on casillas

[rapha-reads]

Ooooooh boy, oh, blimey.

Ted Lasso series 3 episode 11, "Mom City". Can we talk about it?

Because I think I just spent the entire episode crying and sobbing in my scarf. Had to take off my glasses at some point 'cause I couldn't see anything.

If this is the penultimate episode, what's the last one gonna be?

Between Jamie being adorable and heartbreaking and awesome and a Momma's boy, Roy and Keeley being so cool and cute and kind, Beard being heartbreaking and soft and cool as hell, Nate finally making it back to the good place, and Ted finally speaking his hurt and hs sadness and his fear... My heart is in thousands of pieces.

#rapha talks #rapha watches shows #ted lasso #ted lasso s03e11 #ted lasso season 3 #funny how many things i watch/read lately are about parent/child relationship and how our parents fuck us up but also bring us up #and i say funny because i'm having a real hard time with my mother lately and the family drama is both crushing and ordinary #and i've just been thinking a lot about your responsibilities as a parent and your expectations as a kid and vice versa #and it's just... a lot. yeah got a looooot of mommy issues and i definitely need to find me a doctor sharon asap #anyway. let's finish the show tonight. i feel like crying some more.

[rovermcfly]

I just wanna thank you for getting me to watch Ted Lasso and spawning a weird admiration of Trent Crimm (he means everything to me). I fell in love with the show instantly and I don’t think I would have ever gotten around to it had it not been for you blog (and the delightful gifsets of Trent Crimm featured here)

no but srsly, I love the amount of people that have come forward to tell me that my slightly unhinged trent crimm blogging made them watch and fall in love with ted lasso. means the world to me, honestly

#ask #anonymous #I read these messages on my bed kicking my legs up like a teenage girl texting her crush #I'm just so happy I have this effect on people #but this HAS been passed down to me by my friends #who just sat us down to watch ted lasso and were like ''here he comes! here comes the special boy!'' when trent came on #I inherited this from them #me: blogs about wanting to lick trent crimm #my followers‚ for some reason: I'm sold

[mearpsdyke]

six sentence sunday

The sun is dying above them, its last rays peek through the gaps in the stands, and in that moment there’s so much Jamie wants to say, like, I’m surprised you don’t think I’m an asshole yet, You need to tell me how to look this hot after playing the full ninety, I’m glad I asked my agent to book me some random shitty hotel in Mexico, There’s something tearing me from inside and making me bleed when I look at you but I’ll never say it out loud because I value my reputation more than feelings for someone I’ve met three days ago.

Instead, he says: “Can you go for an extra round? Playing football, I mean.”

#fun fact i made my crush read this bit yesterday #cause we met up for (allegedly) writing our research paper together #and she said she liked it <3 #i have to marry her now there's no other alternative #ted lasso #tierra y sol fic